Talabong Mangrove Park
Bais City, Negros Oriental · about 132 km from 3ACs Apartment, Talisay City
Bamboo boardwalk through a vast mangrove island full of birds in Bais Bay.
About
A wide mangrove island at the mouth of Bais Bay, crossed by a bamboo boardwalk that leads through green tunnels of roots to white sand at the edge. Herons, wild ducks and migratory birds feed in the shallows, and the forest is a nursery for fish and crabs. Many dolphin-watching trips stop here on the way back from Tañon Strait.
History
Part of Bais Bay's protected coastal ecosystem, which also supports the fish that feed the strait's dolphins.
Why visit
A calm, shady nature walk to add to your Bais dolphin day.
How to get there
Bais Bay — by boat from the Bais wharf, usually as part of a dolphin-watching tour.
- Boat from Bais (with the city tourism office)
Prices (estimates)
- Entrance / boatOften included in Bais boat tours
Hours / best time: Daytime; ask Bais City Tourism (035) 402-8338
Nearby places
- Bais Whale & Dolphin Watching — Morning boat trips into Tañon Strait to see wild dolphins — and sometimes whales.
- St. James the Greater Church, Tanjay — Home of the oldest parish in Negros Oriental, founded in 1580.
- Tanjay Budbud & Sikwate — Sticky-rice budbud kabog with hot thick chocolate.
- Manjuyod Sandbar — The 'Maldives of the Philippines' — stilt cottages on a vanishing sandbar.
- Palaypay Falls — Pamplona's sulfur-tinged waterfall, fed by springs from the mountains of Sibulan.